Tyger Tyger Burning Bright

Should I put that the fairly significant age difference between Jared Harris and Paul Anderson on top of Moriarty being quite upper class while Moran appears to be working class in AGoS may have been deliberately trying to suggest that the more privileged Moriarty was 'exploiting' Moran in more ways than one? (I mean... this was an era of shit like the 'Cleveland Street scandal' and all the stuff about 'telegraph boys being exploited by older usually aristocratic men'). I am tempted to put that. 
I'm not saying any 'intimate' relationship between them is actually dubious - Moran is clearly way over the age of consent and even if he's unable to actually leave Moriarty's employment he seems perfectly capable of standing up to Moriarty in that regard and I think the elements which appear to deliberately parallel the Holmes and Watson relationship do emphasise that the relationship between Moriarty and Moran is a very genuine one - but it does really feel like the decision to make Moriarty more 'aristocratic' than he is canonically while making Moran far more working class when canonically he probably comes from a background of way more privilege than Moriarty, while also making Moran noticeably younger than Moriarty... put that on top of Moriarty never being shown to have a wife or any kind of female 'love interest' and this being set within only 2 years of the Cleveland Street scandal (I never actually realised til now that was SO close to that, which is very interesting for this film and for the canon too)... I think they were deliberately insinuating something there. 

Do you know what else I can refer to in this essay, the Corpus Clock Chronophage. I've never seen it in reality but I am slightly obsessed with that beasty (and this definitely connects in with the use of clocks in A Game of Shadows, the use of clocks and time linking to death in that film must be deliberate, as I'm sure the chess game is a deliberate shout out to the playing chess with Death thing in The Seventh Seal and the original picture that was based on. I have issues with those films sure not enough Moriarty and Moran for one but I think they're also much cleverer than a lot of people give them credit for and I do think they really played with a lot of the more symbolic stuff with Moriarty in particular in a way few adaptations ever have. Like immersing Moriarty in dark shadows, strange imagery maybe but I think it's fantastic symbolism; like the black horses; like the chess and time and tarot stuff). 

(I do really like this song)